Neighbour trouble

Failing that. Talk to his mother.

and Alex not enough commas!

This is wrong. There is the correct number of commas there.

He's playing coldplay-type music, droning singing, acoustic guitars, strings. He's playing it loud enough that I can hear the hi hats. I guess it's not as bad as techno. Techno is the most antisocial music you can play if you live near other people, but it doesn';t really matter whet the music is, I guess.
He's all the gentle stoner-philosopher when you talk to him, that's his act. He tries to come across all knowing and worldly-wise, which is why I fucking lost it w/him last time. In reality, he's as thick as shit, a thoughtless, selfish lazy prick. I fucking hate him, and I wish he was dead.

: /

That makes things even worse.

I was going to tell they guy's mother about this, and I wasn't looking forward to it at all. I was cycling up our street on the way from work, shortly after I first posted about this, when I passed stoner boy/man and he got all apologetic, oh, I've been such a selfish cunt, he said, and so on. For a while, he's been quiet.

Unfortunately, the neighbours on the other side have taken up the baton since christmas. Coming home w/friends on fri night/sat morning, or sat night/sun morning, and cranking up club music. After they'd done it a couple of weeks on the trot, I went and banged on their door, they were pretty obnoxious & confrontational. They blamed the guy from round the back for the previous week's noise (it was them, I checked both houses) and the guy from round the back was going into the house, and heard them, and there was an argument. That was, like 4 weeks ago. Every weekend, between 11.30 and 1.30, I lie awake at night, fuckign worrying and obsessing. When's it going to start? I've phoned the police a couple of times, and wrote down incicdent numbers.

Last night, I hear the bus pull up outside our house at 12.15 am. A bunch of noisy people get off, and my heart sinks. It's the guy from round the back (who's 43, I found out) w/a bunch of people. In the house they go, and the fucking music comes blasting through the walls. I call the police, who turn up pretty quickly, they turn the music down, but they're otherwise very noisy, lots of banging and shouting. It doesn't quieten down 'till 3.30am. Last night, I basically didn't sleep at all.

So, we're going to see they guy's mother today. From hereon, the minute I hear loud music from either house, I'm going to go and check where it's coming from, then phoning the police. On monday I'm phoning the local environmental health department to see what the procedure for further action is, and what that further action will be. The people next door, next time I hear anything from them, I'm getting in touch w/their landlord. Unfortunately, motherfucker round the back does not have a landlord - his mother owns the place.

I hate these people so much you wouldn't believe it.

We are thinking about trying to move house, maybe trying to move into a semi or a detached house, even a detached bungalow, even though my wife hates bungalows.

This is really ruining my life at the moment. I'm really, really down and depressed about it. I just don't know what to do.

in the end it worked out ok for us cz the builders paid up — or rather, didn't contest when we subtracted the neighbours costs from their bill — but basically the neighbours got a bunch of free roof repair during the "making good" phase, plus free money on top

i have gone from thinking of her esp. as a slightly brittle fussy old busybody to a freeloader

(but when i think of my surges of anxiety in the situation, and put myself in her place — our block is eight flats, she just has a little house abutting on it, we dwarf her — i can imagine she got pretty bent out of shape anxiety-wise also: she is totally a worrier) (ie i think ours WAS more of a six of one half a dozen of the other — but i can only see that now the building works are LONG over)

"englishman's home is his castle" = border-dispute tends to turn into medieval war

We went out for a walk, and both noticed something that's been niggling for a year or so - the place where we live has really fucking gone downhill in the last few years. When we moved here, it was this little backwater and most of the people who lived here were elderly. 12 years on, most of the old folk have died off, and the place has become a sought-after residential area for young couples first homes. House values have tripled, and even quadrupled in that time, and most of that value seems to have gone on in the last 4-5years. Paradoxically, this place is turning into a fucking shithole. there used to be almost no cars around, and the place was quiet, now there are over 100 cars parked round the back of out block, more cars than houses, I suspect, and a lot of them are hot hatches, wrxs etc. People use the place as a racetrack. Around about midnight, it's like a rush hour, plus people pull out of the side road beside our house w/wheelspins, burning rubber etc all day long. The field round the back is all chewed up w/tyre tracks. Noice pollution shit like I've been dealing w/would have been unheard of 7-8 years ago. Something kicks off about once every week-10days on the bus home, fights, blazing rows. What the fuck? An upside to this place is that the school is good, so we really need to stay here 'till Adam has finished his education (10-12 years) though not necessarily in this fucking house. I used to love living here, now I'm actually feeling pretty close to despair.

I feel like I'm in hell. Again, I just don't know what to do.

this guy soudns like a fucking imbecile. what about an ASBO? how does that come about?

We (Jill and Me)talked about it 1/2 an hour ago. I'm going to attempt to take on a second job, and work my ass off, and then we're going to move, hopefully in 3ys or less? these people have driven us out of our home.

I can see why gated communities are appealing now.

Thanks Ambrose. (&everyone else)

Hopfully when we sell the place, it'll be to a total fucking psychopath w/a a black belt and a shotgun.

As far as moving goes, this episode has opened my eyes to the state of our neighbourhood, as mentioned above. I really don't want to live here anymore.

My friend emailed me back, there is some possibility of work from him, so, you know... We'll see.

I have a little bit of experience here, as a member of my family was similarly bedevilled by noize probs.

1)Don't speak to them anymore - you have asked them to stop and they haven't.

2)Write every incident down with exact times and dates

3)Ask the council for recording equipment to be brought to provide a measurement of the actual level. They can also leave equipment with you for you to use. They will also send someone out to witness the noise.

4)After this they will write to them threatening prosecution. They will most likely ignore, so at this point the police will probably get involved.

As Ambrose says, get independant advice about what *should* happen, so that you can make sure that the council and the police are doing what they ought to.

(Alternative strategy - rig up all yr synths through HUGE P.A to create v.v. loud PROGDRONE which is directed at their house. Bricks and mortar crumble! hot hatches burst into flames! bowels rupture! eyeballs pop!)

You only get annoyed by something if you choose to be annoyed by it.

Get over it! This "OMG the neighbours make noise and now my life is DESTROYED and I'm DEPRESSED and ALL FUCKED UP" thing is the biggest wank I've ever heard.

Your life is only crap because you are choosing to allow it to be so. What a pathetic excuse.

Also, being patient implies that you are *waiting* for a particular outcome. Tolerance would be more useful in this situation.

I know it makes you blood boil, but step back, count to ten, try not to get too stressed (easier said than done, I know) and avoid any unnecessary confrontation. The advice Dr C has give is OTM, whatever happens now, play it by the book, let the authorities deal with it, it's their duty and responsibility to investigate it.

The Neighbours From Hell have escalated from having a loud party out in the garden every few months to doing it every weekend.

This past weekend was particularly bad - they were out until 2am on Saturday night, playing music in the garden really loud, bellowing along, shouting at one another at the tops of their voices.

You'd think they'd be too hungover to make much of a noise on Sunday night, wouldn't you? NO! They were out again last night until well after midnight, shouting and bellowing and making a racket until well after midnight.

I've left notes (we asked them to turn their music down the first time they did this, last year, and were greeted with verbal abuse and threats of violence for out trouble). I've called the Noise Nuisance hotline for the Council. My housemate is trying to get hold of their landlord.

I'm reaching the end of my tether. I moved out of Central London to the suburbs to GET AWAY from this kind of thing. I can't believe that any human being can be so inconsiderate and show so little respect for their neighbours. It wouldn't be so bad if they were in their own house, but they go out in the garden so the WHOLE NEIGHBOURHOOD has to be exposed to their noise. Sometimes they even have the radio on in their kitchen, turned up so loud that they can listen to it in their garden - never mind that the window for my room is CLOSER TO THAT RADIO than they are.

I don't know what else to do.

Seeing as how I'm a musician and all, I should be the worst noise pest in the world, but I'm so TERRIFIED of being loud and disturbing people that I won't even play my stereo at all after 11pm.

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/Environment/Pollution/NoiseControl.htm

They never bothered getting back to us. If it happens again, I'm not waiting until 1am to call, I'm calling the minute that they start up.

Norman, what happened with your neighbours? Are they still being a nuisance or is that passed now?

I saw shithead's mother at the bus stop a couple of days after the argument. She was apologetic, and said it wouldn't happen again, and so far it hasn't. Last wintertime, the guy who has the allotment next to ours had a run in with shithead. His car got broken into, and there were a row of footprints leading back from the car to shithead's mother's house. Allotment man went to see shithead, shithead gave him attitude, so allotment man beat him down.

Jill spoke with shithead's mother a month or so ago, and she can't afford to run the place, because of shithead. She'll probably sell the place in a year or so. It's very sad, actually.

If he was my son, he'd have come home to find his bags packed and the locks changed years ago.

Another bunch of skeeves who live just up from us are in the process of moving out, so the place is perhaps looking up a bit at the moment.

What I have learned is this:

People who pull shit like this are inconsiderate fucktards w/massive entitlement issues, and reasoning with them is a waste of time. If you do not complain, they will escalate, like Kate's party a month turning into weekend of hell every week. If I am confronted with such issues in future, I will call the police out straightaway, write down incident numbers every time, contact the environmental health dept immediately, contact their landlords immediately if applicable, contact other local residents and see if they will do the same.

Kate, it is pointless to call the enviro health dept at midnight or 1am, you need to call during office hours, and speak to someone, describing your problems. Call the cops out on the fuckers EVERY TIME, and ask for/write down the incident/log number every time as well. Make a nuisance of yourself - hassle environmental health and their landlord/letting agents.

I feel for you about this, obv, having been in this situation. As a result of my trouble with fucking selfish morons, I have had to have anxiety management therapy. What pisses me off the most is that when I went to see the doctor, he didn't give a shit until I told him I had murderous feelings for shithead. What this tells me = I am officially worth less than the well-being of a selfish waster.

Thanks for the tips, Pash. Perhaps I'll pass the details on to my housemate since he is the houseowner and see if he can get anything out of them.

I have never seen of experienced "happyslapping" or anti immigrant hysteria round here yet.

Oh noes my weekend is ruined!

sunday morning 8am, bloke with machete turns up, informing he would like the noise turned down...NOW

the approach worked. im not sure they'll be having another one for some time.

While holding a hammer.

There is a pick axe in our back garden.

However, when I've not had a lot of sleep, I don't trust myself not to use it. (e.g. right f*cking now, for instance.)

-- MIS Information (masonicboo...) (webmail), July 11th, 2005 8:47 AM. (kate) (later) (link

Lighten the fuck up, you old self-important hag.

Anyway, the best method to deal with this is to cut their fucking power (if you can).

Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit, you walking abortion?

Hahaha you should definitely do this. And take pictures.

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I guess letting your neighbours know you're planning on a party is no good as the neighbours will probably object in advance anyway - still it would be courteous to give warning before inflicting your rubbish music on others, in many cases. People are selfish eh?

These people do it EVERY FREAKING WEEKEND at this point.

I don't think it even crosses their mind that they might be doing something which others might object to - as evidenced by the first time it happened last year, when not just myself, but two other neighbours, separately, asked them to turn the noise down, and were ignored at best, and threatened at worst.

that's where the machete comes in.

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Deep breath, count to ten.

Deep breath.

Which one are you?

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Yes, but why should we have to change for you? I think it is a "community standard" that people should be given more leeway for noise on a weekend.

Like it's not unreasonable to expect that a thread requesting genuine helpful advice will continue on a helpful tone and not degenerate into trolling and spamming.

I can't say I get much noise disturbance in the bit of Streatham I live in, but then I'm in the "nice" bit up by the Common/Rookery. George Galloway apparently owns a house about three streets away from me, but I've never seen him anywhere in SW16 or indeed SW-anywhere.

(on the other hand, they live in Shoreditch, so maybe any of their neighbours who haven't lived there more than a decade deserve every last decibel)

The exact same thing happened to me on Saturday, but I didn't make a big deal about it because it was a Saturday night. I guess if I had to work this weekend I would have been pissed, but under the circumstances it was just a little annoying.

We were just about to sit out in the garden last night. Glass of wine, night sky, you get the picture.

Except that next doors lad has just got a new girlfriend but hasn't discovered curtains.

Massive dud.

(You have to admit it's not clear that you weren't the one in the hallway smoking weed from that initial post. You could have been lying to AUTHORITY.)

the nice thing is that when the cops came to clean up the worst of the debacles, we ended up meeting some of our other neighbors who were likewise irritated by the undergrads' bullshit.

haha because they've all moved the shoreditch and married all the women and stole all the jobs?

oh noes my weekend is ruined!!

(also they can't possibly be hippies if they don't like weed)

But it does feel like a lot of people are missing basic manners. I try to keep relatively quiet, because I know the soundproofing is crap in our building. I don't let my doors slam or run through the halls screeching or writing "drugs R here!!" on the wall when I'm drunk. I don't throw the junk mail I don't want onto the floor. (Someone did this in our building - my boyfriend was so pissed off he cleaned it up himself and it was a whole bin bag full from one flat - wanker...)

We pay a fair whack for living in the centre but sometimes it feels like we're stuck with a bunch of students.

People here can be uptight about things like fences and boundaries too. My mum was visiting and stepped into someone's drive to take a photo so she could get a better shot. The woman came out and bit her head off for daring to venture onto her property.

And, as I said, I was not smoking weed.

Yeah yeah, the difference being that they know! blummin exhibitionists.

These was a reasonable thread at one point:

It lacks a certain decorum.

if you don't like cops knocking on doors, don't live in the same place as 3 drug dealers?

And what a fantastic moment THAT will be...

Actually, they're mine ;)

From the outside, it didn't look like there were any neighbours at all. But then they were very stupid indeed to leave all the windows wide fucking open.

I misread this as wanking. Immediate reaction: stop moaning, you bastardo, he's pleasuring you! ;-)

This is magic.

I lived above some depraved people in Paris once who woke my ex-wife and I one night by contriving somehow to shatter their toilet. Usually they awakened us by blasting Frank Zappa and attempting to argue violently over the music. During the day, I smoked hash with them. They were bordering on being completely socially retarded but they were quaint somehow.

Until recently, the neighbor in the building abutting (and a mirror image of ours) us would stay up all night (on speed, we suspected) chattering, crying, screaming or laughing while watching TV, sometimes all of the above. She moved before we had the temerity to call a swat team.

Our new downstairs neighbor, in our 4 person TIC (essentially a co-op) is a nice, warm seeming lady. After her first night, she called to apologize for her girlfriend's dog who had, supposedly barked in the middle of the night. After less than 4 days in the place she asked my gf to (a) walk more softly (we have over 75% of the floor covered in rugs) and (b) close the door more gently when she leaves at 6:40 am. What irked me was that our previous neighbor, with whom we had conversations about sound, never heard us, and our new neighbor, who moved from the burbs, didn't give herself any time to acclimatize herself to her new environment before bitching out.

Weren't some of the "Britishes" upthread justifying their rightous middle class agnst by complaining that they lived in the "suburbs"? If so I don't know why "terror anxiety" should be any more applicable to them.

And using "terror" as a justification for inane shit is fucked up to begin with.

That aside, I think saying "we have a RIGHT to be as noisy as we want on weekends, screw you guys" is kind of lameass.

Kate's response to my half-hearted teasing was a little bit... asking for it?

This past weekend was particularly bad - they were out until 2am on Saturday night, playing music in the garden really loud, bellowing along, shouting at one another at the tops of their voices.

Oh noes my weekend is ruined!

-- no tech! (hjink...) (webmail), July 11th, 2005 8:45 AM. (ex machina) (later) (link)

Jon - GO FUCK YOURSELF.

-- MIS Information (masonicboo...) (webmail), July 11th, 2005 8:47 AM. (kate) (later) (link)

And if SHE wants to be offended and explain the circumstances and demand an apology from me, SHE can do so.

That aside, I think saying "we have a RIGHT to be as noisy as we want on weekends, screw you guys" is kind of lameass.

That's kind of a strawman you got there. I think there needs to be consideration both ways! (Boring middle class fux vs. obnoxious drug addict party animals)

Kim, eat a dick. I don't even know who you are.

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Seconded. Everyone has a right to have parties etc., but outward hostility toward your neighbours won't do you any favours.

A couple of years ago the people who used to live downstairs used to do this hollering screaming thing. It'd go on for hours. One night they came home at 3am and did it. As revenge I got up at 7am and JUMPED AND BANGED all through the flat for about two hours. Couple of weeks later they moved.

WHERE IN THIS THREAD DID ANYONE MAKE A STATEMENT LIKE THIS?

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Well there's like "noise" and then "NOIZE". And what you should expect hast to kind of vary based on what the neighborhood is like...

WHERE IN THIS THREAD DID ANYONE MAKE A STATEMENT LIKE THIS?

You. "Yes, but why should we have to change for you? I think it is a "community standard" that people should be given more leeway for noise on a weekend."

Dude I like you, dont get me wrong, this is just a bit over the top is all ;P

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ONCE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL I GOT HIT IN THE HEAD WITH SOMEONE'S GYM BAG AND THEY CALLED ME A "FAG". SO I BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF THEM. EVERYONE SAW WHAT HAPPENED BUT REFUSED TO TELL THE HEAD NUN SO I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO GOT DETENTION.

(and on that note, Jim were you being sarky? I erm, hope so).

You know what? You're absolutely right.

You shouldn't do it because you're forced into it, you should do it BECAUSE YOU'RE A FREAKING CONSIDERATE HUMAN BEING.

Given that on more than a few occasions I've witnessed Kate lambasting Jon for weird and ridiculous shit, I think his response is pretty considerate and lighthearted through glib. And given that she recommend he drown in his own vomit as a walking abortion (which is like a 100 on my list of insensitive things to say) after he suggested she just shrug off an annoying nuisance (this is a 10 on my list of insensitive things to say), I don't see what he's done that's so wrong. Between wishing somebody violently dead and wishing somebody just 'get over' a real pestering situation is basically an order of magnitude in nastiness.

And given the history jon's had w. kate, it's understandable he presumed her attack was unmotivated in the way most of the others have been. But her state of mind's not the issue -- if she's gonna leap down his throat maybe she should think about avoiding ILE for a few days, where it's /quite/ likely she'll be offended?

To be fair, to some people who are constantly kept awake night after night, threatened with violence by their neighbours if they go and complain, and are at their wits end, is a bit more than "a nuisance", Jer :)

Also, are you twits incapable of reading the part where I mentioned that I WAS COMPLETELY FUCKING UNAWARE THAT SHE WAS FRIENDS WITH LIZ.

Dicks.

xpost: eh, as soon as the abortion thing was said (which is waaaaay more unsensitive than anything I have ever posted to ILX) my "coddling" ability went out the window.

Anyway chill y'all, now you know the reason behind ppls reactions. Lets leave it eh.

these utopian expectations are divorced from reality though.

Shit I have to go to work.

Next time you're all kept awake by someone playing Mylo at 4am, call the fuckin' cops, repeatedly until they come and do something about it.

Jon, they're only going to get more hysterical so give it a rest before they really start throwing a fit.

Goddamn people, there's better expenditures of emotion at the moment!

this has double standard written all over it

Wow, you sound angry. Imagine how much angrier you'd be if your city was blown up last week.

Ahahaha! At least you got the country right.

Yes. Cue the oh-so-contemporaneous Paul Hogan jokes.

Wow, we're back on topic! Magic.

-- Orbit (cstarrcstar...), July 13th, 2005 12:35 AM.

sexist pig

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I cant tell who's being serious and whos taking the piss :/ But reading the above it looks like certain people I thought better of have just had a go at me, and thats just charming, thanks a lot mongrels.

Im so tired - I was working til 4am and have had about 5 hours broken sleep %-(

- People's moms/dads/siblings dying.
- Rape / Sexual Assault.
- Gender identity.

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aw, you're an honourable man jon.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h59000/h59543.jpg

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OH MY GOD PEOPLE ARE HAVING PARTIES ONCE A MONTH AND MAKING SO MUCH NOISE AT 2AM ON A SATURDAY IT'S RUINING MY LIFE I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO STOP THE PARTIES CALL THE NOISE POLICE

Wow, this thread is amazing.

My patience is wearing thin with the tenants upstairs, who are allowing their toddler to thump on my bedroom ceiling at midnight. If he wasn't such a little blighter, I'd swear he was jumping on a pogo stick. They have also flooded my bathroom yet again, and I have a mouldy ceiling yet again. /moan

Why is their toddler up at midnight?

"S4T4N S3Z SHUT TEH FUCK UP LOL" w/a pentagram. In blood.

My boss has a pretty funny story about he and his band-mates' house getting robbed by their neighbors when they lived in a sketchy 'hood in the 90's. He got really drunk, blasted Sabbath out his open windows, burned a pentagram in his front yard and stood shirtless outside by the flames. He then proceeded to establish eye contact and point menacingly at everyone who happened to drive by, all while swinging his shirt above his head. They had no more trouble.

Why is their toddler up at midnight?

Good question!

btw he was in a surf/garage instrumental combo with a predilection for bowling shirts, just to add to the ridiculousness of it all.

Why is their toddler up at midnight?
Has to keep swimming because of flooded flat.

http://img15.echo.cx/img15/8554/omg4pa.gif

yowsah yowsah yowsah

Hahaha I had forgotten about this crazy thread.

Wow, such troubling neighbours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH6bZRTlM84&fe

My next door neighbour, who bought the house last year, has been hammering and drilling into the wall we share for MONTHS now. A couple of hours every day. I guess he's DIYing the thing and he's not very experienced. How much patience is a normal neighbour expected to have for this kind of thing? He hasn't let me know anything, he hasn't asked me anything, it's like I don't live here, the way he's going on about it. Does he not know it sounds and feels like he's in my house whenever he does this?

I can't call the cops before I ask about it personally, which I can't, because I'm an angry coward and I only shut my doors very loudly hoping he will realize that if he hears me I hear him too, to no avail. Putting a new kitchen and bathroom in isn't forbidden, I know that, but I'm all out of patience and I would just be too angry to speak my mind calmly if I went and rang his door bell. I'm not writing a letter, that would be too passive/aggressive ("I'm sorry I'm not bothering you by living here next to you quietly" etc)

GRRRRRRR

("sorry I'm bothering you by living here" that is)

I've bought headphones which I'm wearing to listen to music and watch TV every night and every weekend - IN MY OWN HOUSE - but it's not helping much.
I'll go sit in my car in the garage to cool down now - again.

One of my previous neighbours from hell has returned after an 18 month prison sentence and he is pissing me off already by throwing bifta ends over the wall. His partner and kids are hard work as well, but not bad people, in fact his kids are quite hilarious at times.

But this fucker is a vortex of bad shit and I have been getting worried recently that I might end up in a situation that leads to physical violence and he is only a scrawny lil shit but is still potentially quite dangerous in that he has a network of criminal friends and is liable to pull a knife.

I can't prove it but the last time he was out some of my kid's garden furniture and a sandpit table got knicked and I am fairly certain this fucker was the perp.

I was going to go around and confront him about the bifta ends but one of them was quite big so I just smoked it instead.

I hope this doesn't restart my smoking habit, but this is some strong shit. Probably a shameful admission to make but fuck I haven't been stoned for years.

I had forgotten how good music sounds on weed, so thank you bad neighbour.

it's bifter, pal.

The Bifta awards

skunk tenancy

Fpd u for that

for the second time in my life i live above a guy who does loud religious singing a few times a day. for the second time in my life he's also a domestic abuser. go religion.

he sometimes comes up to tell us to "stop the heavy walking, i have a £5,000 chandelier and it's shaking from the way you guys walk" - i've tried, more for my own amusement than anything else, to introduce a sliver of self-awareness into his dire world by saying "the walls and ceilings are quite thin here, i can imagine that anyone making any noise would be extremely irritating for the entire apartment block" or "yes, we all have to consider how much unnecessary noise we make, or the strange habits we have which bother others" and he just reacts as if he's thinking "yes i'm glad you agree you are noisy". ultimately i've decided he's a fucking dick.

I have some very annoying + dodgy neighbours, but nobody that intrusive and unreasonable. I think I would probably lose my self control in a situation like that, and it would degenerate into empty threats yelling and much innocuous shoving with no real follow up in no time!

(xp)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s70y40ba7k8

I have some very annoying + dodgy neighbours, but nobody that intrusive and unreasonable. I think I would probably lose my self control in a situation like that, and it would degenerate into empty threats yelling and much innocuous shoving with no real follow up in no time!

yeah it is testing, sometimes i genuinely want to just tell him to go fuck himself, i'm not intimidated by him in the slightest, but i know that peace is important. he hasn't been around in a little while so i'm hoping he might have stopped. one morning last year he had a screaming argument with his brother, who was on the street outside roaring up "you're a fucking pussy, i'll fuck you in the ass you fucking pussy, come down here and i'll fuck you in the ass. you beat your wife, you insult my wife, you're a fucking coward, i'll fuck you in the ass, get down here."

i was fairly tempted to give the brother my key and let him at it.

I find it quite comforting when my neighbour invites her despicable, beyond the pale sociopath male sibling around and every time he turns a happy social situation like a bbq or a pool party into a shitfest with much shouting and threats of violence, 8-way recriminations etc. I was just lying on the trampoline with a bottle of red and laughing my head off at some of the dialogue tonight. I don't mean it in a judgemental way, because I do actually have an affection for these ppl. And they do a sterling job of pissing off the same evil neighbours I can't stand. you do get these people on council estates with delusions of middle classiness, who are some of the real worst people amongst humanity in the uk right now IMHO

ah *wipes tear* yr description reminds me of dear ol mum

did we ever get this sorted

well idk about "we" but "i" moved

at least your mam had the pretext of having to live with fucking giving birth to you as an excuse for being so! jokes obv !

harsh, fair, tru, joeks

My neighbour has this Del-boy type business plan to find a cheap way of undercutting the people that install outdoor pools in peoples gardens. He invited me round to inspect his crudely nailed together crates on a badly mixed concrete base that is totally on the piss. I like his style though, but didn't have the heart to tell him how many holes there are in his plan. But I'm the smug twat who once 2nd fixed the spur on a £120 grand, granite font in an Anglican monastic church, so obv I know everything!

He also has this partner in crime who swears every second word but still admonishes other people for swearing in front of his young daughter and said "if you fucking know anyone interested in having a garden pool, then fucking recommend us, man"

i <3 calzino posts

hes a terrible man in many of the good ways

pure glee

some crazy mofo is cutting their hedges at 00:37 GMT. There will be blood.

ooof

I've got it wrong, it's Yorkshire Water doing midnight groundworks around the corner. The water went off for a few hours earlier. Sorry bad revive!

if I ever completely lose the will to go on, I will start cutting my hedges at 2am though.

kinda disappointed tbh

had a neighbour call around today complaining about noise. It was disappointing, because this is currently the quietest period I've had in years. I initially kept it polite, and when he started complaining about my partner being loud and swearing a lot loudly - I explained she hasn't even been in the house for over 3 and a half weeks and suffers from MS + dementia and is still in hospital after major surgery .. so you can't say you are still hearing her, dickhead. I did my theatrical hardman nonsense at this point which is blazing eye contact, followed by taking glasses off like I'm ready for action (lol I'm not really) and walking towards him .. and he ran off. I walked around to his front door and knocked on his door. I just wanted to clear the air and explain that there are different types of neighbour noise and stuff like autistics having meltdowns or confused people that suffer from dementia don't have a fucking volume control or a shutoff switch so it's out of my control, but he was hiding in there with curtains shut. I returned again later after I had calmed down and he still wouldn't come out, this was annoying because he approached me in a bullying manner is about 6"2 and absolutely shit it when I made it clear I was ready to knock the cunt to the deck!

a problematic post, but anyone coming to my doorstep giving me unfair grief, right now I'm ready to put them on the deck very fast if all diplomatic options are exhausted